{"id":505,"date":"2022-08-29T06:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T06:29:35","slug":"the-founding-of-a-tradition%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/the-founding-of-a-tradition%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founding of a Tradition\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember this about \u2018Attention\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. We feed the hunger blindly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a story titled \u2018The Founding of a Tradition<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018Tales of Dervishes\u2019 which is a compilation of tales recorded during the past thousand years. Here the stories contain several levels of meaning and work like psychological mirrors in which the reader may see himself and reality reflected, and come to better understand both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Persian word dervish <\/strong>is generally considered to be derived from the verb der-vekhtan <\/strong>to wait at a door. The reference is to waiting before the door of enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Founding of a Tradition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ONCE upon a time there was a town composed of two parallel streets. A dervish passed through one street into the other, and as he reached the second one, the people there noticed that his eyes were streaming with tears. ‘Someone has died in the other street’! one cried, and soon all the children in the neighbourhood had taken up the cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What had really happened was that the dervish had been peeling onions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a short space of time the cry had reached the first street; and the adults of both streets were so distressed and fearful (for each community was related to the other) that they dared not make complete inquiries as to the cause of the furore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wise man tried to reason with the people of both streets, asking why they did not question each other. Too confused to know what they meant, some said: For all we know there is a deadly plague in the other street.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rumour, too, spread like wildfire, until each street’s populace thought that the other was doomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When some measure of order was restored, it was only enough for the two communities to decide to emigrate to save themselves. Thus it was that, from different sides of the town, both streets entirely evacuated their people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, centuries later, the town is still deserted; and not so far away are two villages. Each village has its own tradition of how it began as a settlement from a doomed town, through a fortunate flight, in remote times, from a nameless evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story from \u2018Tales of Dervishes\u2019 by Idries Shah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tales of the Dervishes by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>